So if there is no vote of public confidence does this mean that the Government think all is OK? Are you saying Gordon Brown goes to bed each night thinking we are right behind him?

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I wish I was, with a knife.

Our glorious one eyed leader is about to screw me and many other small business owners over this year with a 3 x rates rise and an extra 4 days compulsory holiday, the rise being based on the 2006/7 economy.

Ashie, when you get back to the Politburo, tell the one eyed trouser wetter that I hope he has a stroke, soon.

He said businesses would face only a 2% rise this year and the remaining 3% would be smoothed out over the following two years

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With the 2% being paid from last years crap year and the following 3% being paid from this years crap year.

If we are at 0% and falling, then rates should be dropping, not going up by anything at all.

On top of that, business rate relief is being abolished (which I should have mentioned in the first place, that is where the majority of the tax grab is coming from) and the gobernment is also pushing ahead with plans to let councils impose extra taxes on businesses to help pay for local infrastructure projects.

The cyclops won't be happy until there are no small businesses left operating.

He said businesses would face only a 2% rise this year and the remaining 3% would be smoothed out over the following two years

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With the 2% being paid from last years crap year and the following 3% being paid from this years crap year.

If we are at 0% and falling, then rates should be dropping, not going up by anything at all.

On top of that, business rate relief is being abolished (which I should have mentioned in the first place, that is where the majority of the tax grab is coming from) and the gobernment is also pushing ahead with plans to let councils impose extra taxes on businesses to help pay for local infrastructure projects.

The cyclops won't be happy until there are no small businesses left operating.

I truly do wish that he would keel over and die.

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I don't know what you are worried about, it's not like there are lots of companies failing which need to be replaced by growing small businesses. there is always a turnover of companies, and it's good that the swamp thing is stamping hard on the people who are trying to create jobs to replace those lost.